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The students were allowed to choose their own incentive to meet the reading goal, but instead of a reward, the class chose a punishment: Students who failed to meet the goal could either stay inside at recess until it was met, or have their faces written on by classmates who met the goals.

Nine students didn’t meet the goals. Three of them chose to forgo recess, and the other six chose to have their faces marked on.

“Although all the students in the class agreed to the incentive, once it occurred it was not so well received. Nor should it have been,” Smyer said.

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I am not for grading on a curve or molly-coddling kids in school. I think we need tough standards and higher expectations out of students and teachers. But this is outrageous, over-the-top and highly uncalled for.

This is crazy. My best friend in grade school had dyslexia so his reading skills weren’t quite as good as others, should he have had his face marked on? They need to shame the teacher at a PTA meeting in the same way.

The teacher in question, is literally allowing the inmates to run the institution. They are nine years old, and they are under the care of a teacher because they are too inexperienced to make trustworthy decisions.

Hey, what’s really outrageous was when my seventh grade math teacher joined the children in my class to pretend an assignment was due when it wasn’t, specifically to embarrass me, the class nerd, knowing how abashed I would be at “failing” my homework.

In nerd terms, kind of a mock execution.

Mrs. Mandeville, if you’re still alive, you better believe I still hold a grudge, and you’re still a b!tch. 🙂

Hey, what’s really outrageous was when my seventh grade math teacher joined the children in my class to pretend an assignment was due when it wasn’t, specifically to embarrass me, the class nerd, knowing how abashed I would be at “failing” my homework.

In nerd terms, kind of a mock execution.

Mrs. Mandeville, if you’re still alive, you better believe I still hold a grudge, and you’re still a b!tch. 🙂

Seth Halpern on November 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM

Think of it as a learning experience. Had you ever given a thought before that to how bad that jock who was giving you a swirlie felt when he didn’t hand in his homework?